I seem to have gotten whatever cold is going around, and have quarantined myself at home so as not to infect my co-workers. I think I got it from one of them and I don’t want to do the same thing to the others.

Contagion aside, a combination of real pseudoephedrine, mucinex, and ricola lozenges has me feeling nearly normal.

Our new building (the Computational Science and Engineering Building) at Hopkins lacks drop ceilings throughout. It’s got sort of a modern/industrial look with exposed duct work and so on. It also has marker boards and bulletin boards everywhere. Last week someone wrote on a marker board,

Can we have ceilings?

below it was written,

No ceilings for you! Next!

evoking the Soup Nazi.

This inspired me to create a lolcat-like sign involving the infamous Ceiling Cat:

I have another lolcat made regarding our lack of floor treatments, but that will be posted here only after I post it in real life.

a melting heart in a take-away paper cup, poured by Rico

Originally uploaded by shanghaibarista

Mmmm.

retorno a la unidad

Originally uploaded by cocoronela

Translations welcome.

Loveheart?

Originally uploaded by Annie in Beziers

Sort of looks like someone took a heart and dropped it on the pavement.